We're All Criminals Now. The government is in the habit of treating the private sector as an illegal enterprise
Roane, Spencer
"We're All Criminals Now" "Warner-Lambert to Pay $430 Million" "Hospital Company Settles with Government for $1.7 Billion" — "Schering-Plough to Pay $345 Million to...
...Through 2003, the "relators" got a nice paycheck, too: over $1.2 billion went to reward these informers...
...Typically, a corporate integrity agreement requires the entity to "self-disclose" to the OIG any material violations that are found by the compliance program...
...As noted in an article in the Food and Drug Law Journal, the FDA has extensive administrative powers over a company, ranging from authorizing clinical research essential for new product development, to approving products and labeling claims, to regulating promotional activities, to inspecting plants and records, to recalling products and suspending approvals...
...That leverage is often enormous...
...The secrets of lulling your opponent into false confidence...
...In 1998, the Master Settlement Agreement in the tobacco litigation with the states cost the tobacco companies $250 billion, spread out over 25 years...
...government is now extorting billions of dollars each year from private businesses as "settlements" for alleged wrongdoing, when it is often questionable that there has been any "wrongdoing" in any traditional sense of that word, and when the settlements are often grossly disproportionate to any supposed harm...
...What's this mean for you...
...It "encouraged sales representatives to provide one-on-one sales pitches to physicians about off-label uses of Neurontin without prior inquiry by doctors...
...These must be pretty well-heeled "criminals...
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...In fact, one estimate has concluded that 23 percent of all prescriptions written are for off-label use...
...That's IF you want to pay for the tapes...
...According to the government, WarnerLambert engaged in a series of shocking acts...
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...you better make sure he STAYS down...
...In the Neurontin case, the informer was one of Warner-Lambert's medical liaisons...
...The EPA has handed out $40.4 million in penalties, and the settling companies have "agreed" to pay more than $2.1 billion to "invest" in projects or technologies demanded by the EPA...
...THERE IS ONE "CATCH": You must hurry...
...is the BASIC hand-to-hand package of two training videos...
...It sponsored "purported" independent medical education events "on off-label Neurontin uses with extensive input from Warner-Lambert regarding topics, speakers, content, and participants...
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...Are you leaping from your chair, spluttering that $430 million is not nearly enough for such outrages...
...Which of these must be included in determining the "best price...
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...Chevron, $95 million...
...From 1995 to 1998 his long-range reconnaisance unit (the feared "Sayeret Golani") roamed deep into enemy territory, fighting, capturing and "eliminating" terrorists and insurgents...
...Whenever companies contract with the federal government they are, it seems, transmuted into fraudulent enterprises...
...His name is Nir Maman (pronounced "Near...
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...The historical Spencer Roane was a judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia from 1794 to 1822, known forhis defense of state sovereignty against usurpations by the federal government...
...In a split second, before he can put any hurt on you...
...medical device manufacturers (Guidant...
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...They had to split a measly $31.7 million three ways...
...When finalized in 2003, the components of this settlement totaled $1.7 billion...
...He need not finance the lawsuit out of his own funds...
...No one is in favor of fraud or corporate wrongdoing...
...The enforcement agencies and the prosecutors are not going away...
...He might want to start at home, with the lawsuits brought by his own executive branch...
...And...
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...As it turns out, there are huge fortunes to be made privately as well—if you are the kind of person who will betray your employer, attack your fellow workers, and become a government informer...
...Nir (along with so many other front-line veterans) realizes it is past time forAmericans to learn how to fight...
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...Insurance may not cover criminal fines...
...is in Nir's astonishing teaching method...
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...Hospitals, nursing homes, and other health-care providers have been subjected to an onslaught of investigations, prosecutions, and forced settlements...
...who has perfected a short-cut teaching method that will force-feed these skills into you faster than you ever believed possible...
...Bancorp Piper Jaffray all "agreed" to settle...
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...But the latest assault—accelerating rapidly over the past 15 years—has received less attention...
...Drug pricing is complex and there are many kinds of allowances, discounts, services, and adjustments that may go into a particular contract with a Is your mind reeling from the blatant criminality of this conduct...
...If they don't, they are not notified to change their prices...
...Because you get an extended...
...Since President Bush took office in 2001, there have been repeated settlements, fines, and penalties, running as high as $110 million, against defense contractors...
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...On April 28, 2003, the SEC, acting with New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and other agencies, imposed $1.4 billion in penalties and other payments on ten of the top brokerage and investment banking firms in the United States...
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...I only have enough of these tapes to send to the first 80 people...
...It reads like a "who's who" in health care...
...So hurry...
...Phillips, $8 million...
...Meanwhile, the FDA remained busily at work...
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...According to the Justice Department, the tobacco companies since 1953 have engaged in "fraud" by, for example, issuing false statements denying that smoking causes disease...
...In May 2004, the pharmaceutical manufacturer Warner-Lambert pled guilty and agreed to pay more than $430 million to resolve criminal and civil charges brought by the government...
...Or should we open up the corporate treasury and settle, no matter how excessive and unfair the liability...
...Let me tell you — when your opponent doesn't care at all about his own life as he attacks you...
...That means...
...This is also the ONLY way you can learn these skills...
...It reaches those who present or "cause to be presented" a false claim against the United States...
...President Bush has endorsed lawsuit reform as a priority for his second administration...
...Former Israel commando Nir Maman Served in the feared "Sayeret Golani" where his job was to "fight, capture and eliminate" terrorists and insurgents...
...These are documents that require the entity to put into effect a "compliance program," supervised by the government...
...From that fund, increasing amounts of these fines and Although the big fraud enforcement money is in pharmaceuticals and health care, other industries are hardly immune...
...At the outset, these are secret lawsuits, conducted "under seal" of the court...
...Last summer, Schering-Plough agreed to plead guilty to a $52.5 million criminal fine, and to pay $290 million in civil penalties, for "fraudulent pricing" of its successful anti-allergy drug Claritin...
...It's how we built our reputation...
...And these tactics work whether you're on the ground...
...The drug will be "labeled" as safe and effective only for the specific diseases for which this testing is done...
...Now, it might be prudent to respectfully decline the honor of joining that list, because according to the federal government the organizations on it are nothing but defrauders, criminals, lawbreakers, or submitters of false claims who deserve heavy punishment...
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...The criminal portion of the settlement was a $240 million fine...
...Warner-Lambert promoted the drug for "off-label" uses...
...Certain kinds of companies as a practical matter cannot avoid business dealings with the federal government...
...The secret: Astonishing short-cut training methods that — until now —were the most hidden fighting secrets in the world...
...They may bring charges again in the future...
...It is not illegal for a physician to prescribe a drug for an off-label use...
...Congress has also devised a neat plan to partly fund this apparatus...
...According to the government, Warner-Lambert engaged in a series of shocking acts...
...Next time they may demand more than several hundred million dollars...
...In 2003, "recoveries" in government cases had more than tripled again to $1.4 billion, and the total for all years through 2003 was more than $7.5 billion...
...Israel has a limited population, and the men who join the Special Forces must get up to speed FASTER than any other soldier in the world...
...In three recent cases, the FDA has entered into "consent decrees" with Abbott Laboratories, Wyeth-Ayerst Labs, and Schering-Plough for alleged violations of "good manufacturing practices...
...In 1990, Congress came up with a brilliant device to keep down the costs of the state-run (but partly federally funded) Medicaid programs...
...Did you catch that...
...These agency tools could effectively threaten the survival of even the largest enterprises...
...Did Neurontin have horrific side effects, resulting in thousands of deaths...
...There is room for interpretation...
...If you antagonize them, next time they may not be so understanding...
...Let us hope that some spirit of independence still lives and may prevail...
...Tobacco companies now face a government lawsuit that appears expressly designed to bankrupt them...
...How to learn — fast, in one quick session — almost all you need to know to face down the most dangerous situations you'll ever encounter...
...In just over an hour, you are about to "quick-learn" vicious fighting skills that will change your life...
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...I understand I have a full year to decide after ordering if I want the package or not...
...Depending upon how it is decided, the litigation could go forward or might be derailed...
...Wild-eyed and well-trained killers who, in fact, WANT to die as they take you out...
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...Only seeing the stuff in action will convince you...
...But once drugs go on the market, it often turns out that they are useful in treating more than one disease, and doctors become aware of this...
...Justice boasts that these cases brought in $9.215 billion in restitutions, recoveries, and fines...
...No questions asked...
...if you ask for your refund...
...However...
...The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is 28 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2004/JANUARY 2005 "SPENCER ROANE" engaged in its own march through the oil and gas industry...
...but I will have to give it to someone else if you do not call right away...
...Or there may be another, more plausible hypothesis...
...More important, it mandates the recovery of a penalty of up to $11,000 for every "false claim...
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...That's an average of over $1.9 million in "restitutions, recoveries, and fines" for every single conviction...
...but he got so good that he was asked to TEACH other soldiers his advanced skills...
...The mass of regulatory material that governs Medicare—which is only part of the regulations applicable to the health-care industry—is often reported to be three times as voluminous as the regulations of the Internal Revenue Service, which apply to all individuals and all industries...
...Politicians and the media will applaud...
...What was the sinister crime of which Warner-Lambert was accused that was worth a felony conviction and penalty of $430 million dollars...
...because they had to USE theirtraining within days (sometimes hours) of learning it...
...Plenty...
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...I won't try to convince you here...
...The False Claims Act Tobacco companies now face a government lawsuit that appears expressly designed to bankrupt them...
...Nir not only used his skills in the field...
...The result is a self-sustaining enforcement juggernaut, fed in part by the penalties it collects...
...without risking a penny...
...But no business isimmune, due to the reach of the regulatory regimes of no fewer than 50 government departments and agencies...
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...According to one study, in the health-care field the government recovers 13 dollars for every dollar spent on enforcement...
...We're all criminals now...
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...How to raise your fighting skills from zero to world-class (overnight...
...Here's what's up: These fighting secrets have NEVER been revealed before to anyone outside the Israeli Special Forces compounds...
...Gain that crucial extra second to get the upper hand, without escalating the danger...
...It also covers anyone who "makes, uses, or causes to be made or used a false record or statement" to get the claim paid...
...The suit against Philip Morris, the Liggett Group, Lorillard Tobacco Company, Brown & Williamson, British American Tobacco, and R. J. Reynolds is based on allegations of fraud under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, known as DECEMBER 2004/JANUARY 2005 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 29 WE'RE ALL CRIMINALS NOW RICO...
...Spec Op soldiers shaking their heads in respect and awe...
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...This was the latest case in a sweep through the industry...
...Conoco, $26 million...
...In the trial that is now underway in Washington, D.C., the Department of Justice is seeking $280 billion in damages against these companies, plus injunctive relief...
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...The companies that have been hit up by the EPA to date include Chevron USA, CITGO, Conoco, BP Exploration and Oil, Koch Petroleum Group, Marathon Ashland Petroleum, and joint ventures involving Texaco and Shell...
...Under the Medicare and Medicaid programs, the government directly pays "providers" of health-care services, such as hospitals and nursing homes, for the health care they furnish to 80 million Medicare and Medicaid patients...
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...The Israeli army begged him to stay and continue teaching, but he had other plans after his long and distinguished service...
...Off-label use of drugs approved for other purposes saves an untold number of lives every year, as well as providing needed treatment for other conditions...
...both basic videos, plus the stunning Groundfighting video...
...Nearly all was in either health care-related cases ($5.2 billion) or defense contracting ($1.6 billion...
...or surprised from behind with a knife or gun...
...right before you take him out...
...Or can the government simply twist anyone's conduct to make it an offense, and exert such intimidating enforcement leverage that for the targets resistance is not even an option...
...It's completely new to martial arts...
...Each one is worth its weight in gold (or blood...
...He need only file a complaint and give the government an opportunity to take over the case...
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...Every industry has its own agencies to deal with...
...The list includes the largest private ambulance company (AMR...
...By bringing ALL the skills you will ever need down to just 7 BASIC TOOLS...
...That list includes nearly 400 companies, groups, and individuals...
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...Certainly, the government is not going to complain...
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...running through a dark alley...
...It's mostly his...
...The three largest investor-owned hospital companies are on the list (HCA, Tenet Healthcare, Triad Hospitals...
...They think they're martyrs, with a twisted version of Heaven waiting...
...Oh, hell...
...in a submissive way...
...How to use 12 pounds of pressure (less than it takes to open a can of soda pop) to cause a compete shutdown of his vital systems...
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...Not long ago, it would have been an honor to be included in a list of companies and nonprofit organizations such as Boeing, Exxon-Mobil, Conoco, Shell, Lockheed Martin, Morgan Stanley, R. J. Reynolds, Pfizer, Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline, Goldman Sachs, Wal-Mart, Rite-Aid, Merrill Lynch, Eckerd Drugs, Philip Morris, Chevron, the largest nursing home companies in the country, the largest hospital companies, and major universities like Columbia University and the University of Chicago...
...But under expansive congressional and judicial interpretations, the federal government has now sought to regulate in detail enormous swaths of conduct that were formerly left to the private sector...
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...in profits from cigarettes sold to a broad class of smokers...
...Nir will take care of all ofthat...
...A huge honor only a handful of men have ever enjoyed...
...So in three years, on just this one issue, the Justice Department has so far extracted another $2 billion from the pharmaceutical industry...
...Do it...
...It just seems to defy "common sense...
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...Pray that you never have to meet up with the kind of guerilla terrorists the Israelis face every day...
...THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has found that there are lots of ways to squeeze, subdue, and intimidate the private sector...
...Usually, there were only 4 men in his unit...
...The settlements related to alleged "undue influence of investment banking interests on securities research" at the brokerage firms...
...Amazingly Simple...
...Sinai School of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, the University of Chicago, the University of Florida College of Medicine, and the University of Virginia Medical Center...
...Nir's ground-fighting tactics are astonishing...
...The Justice Department proudly announced that this was the second largest criminal fine ever imposed in a health care prosecution...
...These men did not have the luxury of long training...
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...Will they, too, be found to have committed the vicious crime of telling doctors about possible uses of their drugs...
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...Leading defense contractors—Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Fluor, Raytheon—have been hit for many millions by government actions against them, sometimes on multiple occasions, just since 2001...
...penalties have been parceled back out to the enforcement agencies within HCFAC to finance further fraud investigations...
...Some are for offenses relating to contracts, and others are due to infraction of laws or regulations that principally affect companies that manufacture and sell military equipment...
...Defense contractors have long been whipping boys...
...The Justice Department's latest report, for the year 2003, lists only very modest activity in the sections dealing with organized crime and violent gang activity...
...The OIG publishes a list of companies and entities with which it now has corporate integrity agreements or similar agreements...
...Imagine having secret targets you can reach on anyone, at any time, that will paralyze and put him down in one swift move...
...By 1995 the figure was $245 million, and by 1999 it had nearly doubled to $454 million...
...That's a $50 training video...
...I have a guy here who, for several years straight, saw combat-ready action EVERY DAY...
...The Claritin case was started by three qui tam informers who were former employees of a subsidiary of Schering-Plough...
...but you can own this basic package for just $69 (an immediate savings of $30...
...The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) deserves special mention, though...
...Under a 1996 statute, DECEMBER 2004/JANUARY 2005 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 27 WE'RE ALL CRIMINALS NOW Congress created the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Program (HCFAC), a joint operation involving the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the Department of Justice (including the FBI...
...BP Amoco, $32 million...
...But if you aren't, you get your money back, pronto...
...A "watchdog" group reports that in the three previous years the Justice Department had obtained settlements against six other pharmaceutical companies, including three of the five largest companies, totaling approximately $1.66 billion...
...unless you join the Israeli army and opt for their Special Forces training...
...That's outrageously generous, and gives me more than enough time to check everything out myself...
...You learn proven fight-onthe-ground skills INSTANTLY) This package is worth $150...
...The inspector general in the Department of Health and Human Services has the power to "exclude" hospitals, nursing homes, and other providers from the Medicare and Medicaid programs, which will usually be a death sentence for the entity...
...leading nonprofit hospitals such as Rush-Presbyterian- St...
...Here's the deal: Nir spent enough time in the studio for us to make 4 videos...
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...Now the feds want another $280 billion...
...To keep, no matter what you decide later...
...Not only has the government obtained huge monetary settlements from the health-care industry, it has also required them as part of those settlements to enter into "corporate integrity agreements...
...But you do not risk a penny to check it out for yourself, personally...
...But can a manufacturer spread the word among doctors that they might consider prescribing a certain drug for off-label use...
...It's possible, I suppose, that while no one was looking hardened criminals and greedy fraud artists slipped in through a window at night and took over hundreds of major legitimate businesses...
...How can world-class fighting be simple...
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...Just this year, there was another string of settle-ments with the pharmaceutical manufacturers on a different legal basis...
...Submissiveness in the face of naked governmental power—is that how Americans should behave...
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...So he has authorized us to release only a very limited number of packages, on a very limited time schedule...
...a number of the largest pharmaceutical companies, including three of the top four (Abbott Labs, AstraZeneca, Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Schering-Plough...
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...And indeed they are, because on the whole these fines and penalties did not come from individuals or organizations that most of us would consider "criminals" at all...
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...But when we get to "white collar So what specifically did Warner-Lambert do...
...The extra $205 billion is for interest...
...Department of Justice Sues Big Tobacco for $280 Billion...
...SOMETIMES A COMPANY does not even have that choice...
...Why "pain compliance" is total horseshit in real combat...
...Under its "Petroleum Refinery Initiative," the EPA has entered into 12 "global settlements" with refiners since 2000, covering 40 percent of domestic refining capacity so far...
...The federal government spends about $500 billion each year on the Medicare and Medicaid programs, with the states kicking in well over $100 billion more for Medicaid...
...Their training is so short and so CONDENSED that at age 20, the Israeli Spec Op soldier is as skilled as the average 30-year-old SEAL...
...Defense contractors, by definition, contract with the Department of Defense...
...And some of the "experts" with the biggest mouths have never been within miles of a life-and-death situation...
...you do not risk a penny...
...Certainly, there is a huge disparity between the level of seriousness of the purported offense and the mammoth penalties imposed...
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...For certain drugs, such as those used to treat cancer, the estimates are much higher—sometimes, nearly 100 percent of a cancer drug's use is off-label...
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...For turning in his company to the feds, this high-minded, public-spirited whistleblower—and don't get me wrong, I'm sure his motives were purely altruistic—also happened to get $24.6 million as his personal reward...
...Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly, Wyeth, Forest Laboratories, Cephalon, Genentech, and Bristol-Myers-Squibb have now received subpoenas relating to their marketing practices...
...Most of this money goes directly to health-care providers...
...We are aware that the judicial branch of government has drowned productive enterprises in a torrent of private lawsuits...
...Some of the enforcement actions in the healthcare industry have been colossal in size...
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...A. LTHOUGH THE BIG FRAUD ENFORCEMENT money iS in pharmaceuticals and health care, other ndustries are hardly immune...
...It is a measure of the Justice Department's zeal—and unlimited resources—that it had spent $135 million on this single lawsuit before the trial even began in September 2004...
...Let's look at the tip of the enforcement iceberg, starting with pharmaceuticals...
...But the government's interpretation goes only one way: if an arrangement with a single customer could conceivably be considered as lowering the price, companies must give bigger rebates to all 50 state Medicaid programs and certain other federal programs...
...instead, they are charged with civil and criminal fraud...
...crime," it's a different story...
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...How to "mask" your intentions...
...Civil health care fraud is surely one area of the federal budget where the government is running a substantial 'surplus:" The victimized companies will not complain, either, for a very simple reason: fear...
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...There is no space to go through all of the other agencies busily engaged in extracting monetary settlements from legitimate businesses, often through the use of fraud statutes and with the threat of criminal penalties...
...Some of the acts that the government alleges may have been more questionable, such as paying fees to doctors to attend consultants meetings when, according to the government, there was little or no "significant" consulting...
...Among other things, the False Claims Act allows suits to recover three times the amount of money of which the federal government was allegedly defrauded...
...H pitals, nursing homes, other health-care providers have bee jected to an onslaught of investigations, prosecutions, and forced settlements...
...Third (and last...
...Under the 1996 statute, part of that funding comes from amounts collected in fraud prosecutions and other enforcement activities, which are placed in the Medicare Trust Fund, not the U.S...
...Instead, these billions are mostly extracted from businesses and nonprofit entities, including many which are household names...
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...Are you leaping from your chair, spluttering that $430 million is not nearly enough for such outrages, and that the company should be fined out of existence...
...No questions asked...
...If the government then obtains a settlement or court recovery, the informer gets his share...
...the largest kidney dialysis company (Fresenius...
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...THERE IS PLENTY OF PRECEDENT for sweeping through the pharmaceutical industry time after time, and extracting enormous settlements from the leading players based on the legal theory du jour...
...And second...
...That may be a painful choice, but often it is not a hard one...
...But because this enforcement establishment is entrenched, operates under expansive regulatory schemes, and adds billions each year to federal coffers, it will be enormously difficult to bring to the enforcement process some sense of proportion, and some greater discernment between what is truly intentional fraud and what is only, at most, a violation of a regulatory interpretation...
...dozens of nonprofit community hospitals...
...And it's nasty...
...The feds figure that over 50 years these six tobacco companies made about $75 billion The victimized companies will not complain, either, for a very simple reason: fear...
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...If the leading companies in entire industries are found to be guilty of fraud, or if the government can mount an enforcement initiative against a particular group of businesses that results in nearly all of the targets settling for huge amounts of BY "SPENCER ROANE" DECEMBER 2004/JANUARY 2005 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 23 WE'RE ALL CRIMINALS NOW money, perhaps we should entertain the notion that it is the definition of fraud or illegal activities that has caused this outbreak, not the inherently criminal nature of the conduct of those accused...
...He's not just good (and has proven it by coming out of years of lethal combat without a scratch...
...With this thicket of regulations, and with Medicare and Medicaid accounting for nearly a quarter of federal spending, guess where the hot enforcement action is...
...So WHAT SPECIFICALLY did Warner-Lambert do...
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...As the admiring author of the study put it, the "magnitude of the rate of return on the government's investment makes this area of government expenditures unusual, if not unique...
...Well, nothing like that at all, actually...
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...Either way...
...Pain doesn't deter wild-eyed terrorists when they're in an adrenaline-fueled fury...
...It was little used until 1986, when amendments to the statute turned it into a potent weapon against any industry that has the ill-fortune to be dependent on federal monies...
...It's not just the pharmaceutical manufacturers that are under siege...
...The views expressed are solely his own...
...Ovemighr shipping $22...
...Pennzoil, $11.9 million...
...HCA has spun off a number of its hospitals, but its bonds now trade as junk...
...but it's real...
...The answer...
...HY DON'T WE HEAR more about this enforcement regime that relies on informers, conducts secret proceedings, extracts billions every year from legitimate businesses, and can target a whole industry for extinction...
...Yes, he faced lethal combat with the enemy...
...These skills are being proven, over and over again, every hour of every day...
...Next time they may put the company out of business, or charge the executives personally with offenses...
...Vicious zealots who do not care if they live or die, as long as they inflict damage on you...
...we only duplicated around 80 sets of this package, and then locked up the master tapes so no one else could gain access to them...
...SINCE THE CIVIL WAR, there has been a federal statute called the False Claims Act...
...You have to experience it to "get" how easy and simple it really is...
...He's a friggin' honest-to-God expert...
...This is SHORT-CUT training like you've never experienced...
...You don't risk a penny by ordering right now...
...Before a manufacturer can market a drug, the FDA requires a years-long testing and approval process that may cost hundreds of millions of dollars...
...Did it paralyze those who took it, or cause grotesque birth defects...
...Might it just be possible instead that the web of federal laws and regulations is so thick, sticky, and tangled, the reach of those regulations so pervasive, their interpretation so broad, and their enforcement by government so self-interested, that even businesses with the best of intentions cannot avoid prosecutions, extorted "settlements," huge fines, and criminal sanctions...
...The consent decrees require those companies to "disgorge" past profits related to a given drug...
...in just seconds...
...A key legal ruling is on appeal while the trial proceeds...
...or his "Recommended Package...
...Kerr-McGee, $13 million...
...Because...
...The Most Feared And Respected In The World...
...If so, you are Michael Moore...
...No previous experience with fighting is necessary...
...Is your mind reeling yet from the blatant criminality of this conduct...
...These guys HAD to loam fast...
...yet you can own it now for just $129...
...He's a former Israeli special forces commando and top hand-to-hand combat instructor...
...Spencer Roane" is the pseudonym of a partner in a national law firm...
...To more reasonable minds, there could be a serious question whether this conduct should be an offense at all, much less the basis for a felony conviction...
...But because this was a settlement and plea agreement, the government never had to prove the truth or extent of this activity in a trial...
...Alone, without back-up, miles from safety — and with less than one-fourth the training our own Spec Op soldiers receive — these men faced constant, unrelenting and vicious counter-guerilla combat...
...so new and exciting, this "first peek" at "hidden" Israeli combat secrets is sending shockwaves through the martial arts world...
...Nevertheless, buoyed by its "success" against Warner-Lambert, the government is now rolling out similar investigations throughout the industry...
...And...
...Thus, the government not only uses paid informers to bring about these settlements, but it then requires the companies to inform on themselves...
...That report states that in 2003 there were 4,795 convictions for white collar crime...
...You do not need to have any previous skills (Israeli soldiers come from the civilian population, just like you...
...And yes, he had to use his skills every second of every hour he was under threat...
...And none of the training you learn in face-to-face fighting works on the ground and vice versa Nir has magically made all other martial arts training obsolete How...
...The rules regarding pro24 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2004/JANUARY 2005 "SPENCER ROANE" motion of off-label use are complex and controversial, and some were initially struck down as violations of free speech rights under the First Amendment...
...Thus, government enforcement actions are disproportionately targeted against these and some other industries...
...Even the most battle-experienced Delta commando in our army hasn't faced a fraction of the action the average Israeli soldier does in a month...
...The result are 4 tapes or 3 DVDs of the absolute BEST instructional videotapes I've ever seen...
...The biggest was against HCA, the largest investor-owned hospital company...
...My dictionary defines "compliant" as "complying, obeying, obliging, or yielding, esp...
...The case was filed by the Clinton administration Justice Department in 1999...
...Hmmm...
...UPRC, $2.7 million...
...So call right now...
...Once again, one is forced to ask: How is it that all of the major players in an industry are simultaneously guilty of the same fraudulent conduct...
...If you aren't happy, for any reason whatsoever, I insist you send the material back and get a complete refund...
...Our own super-nasty Spec Op guys (SEALS, Delta) — as well as other world-class soldiers like the French Foreign Legion — are in awe of these Israeli hard-asses...
...which you can use in EVERY SINGLE situation you find yourself in...
...So are three of the four largest nursing home companies(Beverly Enterprises, Mariner Health Care, Kindred Healthcare...
...Marathon, $7.7 million...
...It takes years to get just decent at the groundfighting skills needed for your average fighting system...
...military, every branch of the Special Forces and even the "black bag" arms of the FBI and CIA...
...Every Day Of Their Service...
...and "quick-learn" tips on how to instantly destroy the skeletal structure of your opponent to immobilize him without breaking a sweat...
...Or maybe it has always been true—as many in government, Hollywood, the media, and academe fervently believe—that business corporations and the people who run them are inherently evildoers...
...Pharmaceutical companies sell their products to the state Medicaid programs and other government purchasers...
...There are careers in government that can be made in Medicare and Medicaid "fraud...
...Texaco, $43 million...
...FREE...
...That's why I insist you get the chance to check this out for yourself, without risk...
...But with it comes an unbelievable tangle of regulations, probably the most complicated regulatory structure ever devised on earth...
...A trick Israelis learn so they can take out an attacker on the run, without pausing to "fight" in any normal or expected way...
...It is doing so under statutes and regulations that are interpreted so broadly that prosecutors and government agencies can pick an issue and an industry and set out to collect billions in penalties against all or most of the leading companies...
...We protect our reputation like a crazed bulldog...
...These settlements against Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Dey, and TAP Pharmaceuticals DECEMBER 2004/JANUARY 2005 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 25 WE'RE ALL CRIMINALS NOW It's not just the pharma cal manufacturers that are under siege...
...Most martial art teachers have never been in a real fistfight before...
...Nir has agreed to share them because, first, he created this special system himself...
...Here's how to order: Just call 1800-899-8153 and tell whoever answers you want either Nir's "Basic Package...
...This new balance of power explains why so many companies now tout how "compliant" they are...
...Trying to win a fight by "stunning" your attacker is stupid and can get you killed in the real world...
...but you can have it for $99...
...Exxon, $7 million...
...Many former soldiers have never seen a battlefield...
...22 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2004/JANUARY 2005 "Warner-Lambert to Pay $430 Million" "Hospital Company Settles with Government for $1.7 Billion" — "Schering-Plough to Pay $345 Million to Resolve Criminal and Civil Liabilities" — "Ten of Nation's Top Investment Firms Settle Enforcement Actions for $1.4 Billion" — "U.S...
...It's like a full year of free instruction in the most feared, respected and proven fighting system on the planet right now...
...that is, it told physicians that Neurontin might be used for purposes other than as an "adjunctive" epilepsy medication, which was the use listed in the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) "labeling" of the drug...
...It simply ordered manufacturers to give a sizable rebate on drugs sold to Medicaid...
...This training immediately reduces effective self-defense into a (fun) single "force-feed" session that will fly by...
...It "implemented numerous teleconferences in which physicians were recruited by sales representatives to call into a prearranged number where they would listen to a doctor or a Warner-Lambert employee speak about an off-label use of Neurontin...
...But most important of all, the statute allows the qui tam "relator"—that is, the informer—to recover between 15 and 30 percent of the ultimate settlement or verdict in the case...
...Real, Blood-On-Your-Hands Combat...
...In a single training session...
...When that kind of broad language is coupled with other legal theories like conspiracy and obstruction of justice, executives of the company can easily be made targets as individuals...
...It's why we're the top company in martial arts...
...I am confident you will be impressed...
...Nir is understandably a little concerned that his former employers might STOP him from revealing these secrets...
...You do not need to be "blood thirsty...
...A few years ago, testimony by the American Hospital Association before Congress stated that Medicare alone has over 130,000 pages of regulations and issuances...
...We all know about the 75,000 pages of new regulations issued by the feds each year: how they strangle innovation, divert resources from productive uses, and saddle businesses with staggering compliance costs...
...Each video sells separately for $49.99...
...In this tape, Nir goes into chilling detail about special Israeli combat secrets and tactics — this is stuff no one outside the Israeli "inner circle" of trainers and soldiers has ever heard before...
...How to control...
...Best of all...
...Together these settlements total about $440 million...
...is RECOMMENDED package, which includes the hand-to-hand videos plus the amazing ground-fighting video...
...major universities and medical schools, such as Columbia University, Mt...
...The FDA has attempted to restrict the kinds of communications that may be made to physicians by pharmaceutical manufacturers, but even the FDA admits that pharmaceutical manufacturers may distribute some types of information about off-label uses...
...Overall, HCFAC now has a budget of over $1 billion devoted to uncovering "fraud...
...it's yours FREE...
...The Israeli army had to learn quick how to take ordinary men (who have no special skills or advantages whatsoever...
...But there is one that is becoming increasingly fashionable, because if you are a government regulatory enforcer or Department of Justice lawyer, it's fun, safe, profitable, and a real career-booster...
...Catholic hospital systems...
...Luke's Medical Center in Chicago and Beth Israel in New York...
...because they leap over all other grappling techniques, and skip the years of training necessary for most systems...
...and you can see for yourself what all the fuss is about...
...Because the False Claims Act requires a minimum penalty of $5,500, up to a maximum of $11,000, for every "false claim"—and these claims may be repeated thousands of times as part of routine business activities—the liability that can be asserted by the government is often gigantic...
...Think about that: One set of skills...
...2 life-changing videos on hand-to-hand fighting (including moves no one has ever seen before outside the Israeli Spec Op world...
...Burlington Resources, $8.5 million...
...It goes on and on...
...All in a shortcut, super-condensed format that will infuse you with skills literally as you simply WATCH the training tapes...
...But that was not enough—if the manufacturer sold its drugs to anyone at a lower price, it was required to increase the rebate to Medicaid so that Medicaid would get the "best price...
...Are they all truly evildoers...
...Here's how: We rushed Nir into our super-secret recording studios as quickly as we could, once he agreed to reveal everything...
...incapacitate.., and end the fight on your terms...
...and Unocal, $21.5 million...
...It seems hard to imagine...
...which work whether you're standing up, running, or on the ground...
...I'll explain in a second) Second...
...yet it is also the most PROVEN and effective...
...So executives and directors face a choice: Should we risk bankrupting the company, losing our careers, honor, and personal assets, and going to prison...
...if you're hungry for proven, super-nasty fighting skills that you can learn almost overnight...
...Oxy USA, Inc., $7.3 million...
...Together, these settlements have required disgorgement of more than $750 million...
...All payments in US currency only...
...The Department of the Interior, in concert with the Justice Department, determined that nearly every major oil company has been defrauding the United States regarding oil royalties...
...The U.S...
...In the health-care field, there is a huge, permanent investigative and enforcement apparatus at both the federal and state levels...
...then mo e years to master the trapping skills, the disarming skills, etc...
...False Claims Act and/or administrative settlements were imposed on Mobil Oil for $45 million...
...Never mind that cigarette packages have carried health warnings since the 1960s, the exact language of which was mandated by the federal government...
...Yes, he killed people...
...Attorney General John Ashcroft and the Bush administration had the chance to drop the lawsuit in 2001 but decided not to do so...
...No long practice or drills required...
...Since 1986, qui tam settlements and verdicts have multiplied exponentially...
...The thing is...
...It's the government's position that these companies should retroactively "disgorge" their profits, plus nearly three times that amount in imputed interest, for 50 years of conducting a lawful business...
...He now reveals to YOU the fighting secrets that make him one of the most dangerous men on earth...
...you better have the skills to take him out FAST...
...The prosecution related to conduct involving Warner-Lambert's popular drug Neurontin...
...if you opt for the ADVANCED package...
...This novel theory holds that if the drug was not manufactured in accordance with those practices, the company is not entitled to any profits from its sale...
...particular drug company customer...
...Hey — I didn't believe it myself at first...
...Sun Oil Company, $200,000...
...In cases where the Justice Department has intervened, qui tam suits brought in a mere $355,000 in 1988...
...It is not always an easy question, given the breadth of the regulations and the messiness of real world arrangements that regulations may not address...
...Still, here's a "taste" of what you're about to discover: / How to use the combat-veteran soldier's "Vital Target" map of vulnerable spots on the human body...
...Since a hospital may easily submit tens of thousands of "claims" for services rendered to Medicare and Medicaid patients each year, and False Claims Act liability may extend as much as ten years into the past, the potential monetary liability is truly staggering...
...Accuse a legitimate business of fraud, threaten the company and its executives with huge civil and criminal penalties, and then just watch them scramble to pay up...
...It contains a provision authorizing what are known as qui tam lawsuits, in which a private individual can file suit on behalf of the government of the United States, in instances where the federal government has alleged-ly been defrauded...
...When all are guilty, there is something wrong with the definition of guilty...
...Shell, $110 million...
...you've just seen the most sought-after r fighting secrets on the planet_ for free...
...Morgan Securities, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup Global Markets (formerly Saloman Smith Barney), UBS Warburg, and U.S...
...ANNYONE WHO THINKS that the Justice Department nd FBI (which is part of Justice) mainly purue things like organized crime syndicates is living in the past...
...26 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2004/JANUARY 2005 "SPENCER ROANE" also were based on alleged Medicaid or marketing "fraud...
...If some must be included, how are they to be valued...
...But the essential point is this: Is it an exaggeration to say that the enforcement system is out of control when federal prosecutors can bring a suit to bankrupt an entire industry that has been marketing a legal product...
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